RE: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document

[William Bader]

texi2roff can convert texinfo files to groff which can then produce various text and printable formats.

It doesn't make a man page, but it does make something that you can open in a text editor.

I updated it once about 20 years ago, and someone else updated it again about 10 years ago and bumped it to version 2.

http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/texi2roff

> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:37:40 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document
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> On 03/12/2015 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > It's easy
> > to use help2man to generate man pages from --help output, but I don't
> > know of any good conversion from texinfo to man. So the man page ends
> > up being as concise as --help output, while including a pointer to the
> > full documentation.
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> Hello! Does the fact that you CANNOT pipe the texinfo pages through
> a filter or a pager to easily format as man pages, somehow fail to
> indicate to you that they are in fact LESS USEFUL than man pages,
> precisely because the damn texinfo format doesn't play nice with
> Unix command line tools?
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